The Israelites' calamity is described by two parables; of lions; 10. and of a vine planted and plucked up.The Israelites calamitie is described by two parables; of lions; 10. and of a vine planted and plucked vp.✦
And thou take up lamentation upon the princes of Israel,AND thou take vp lamentation vpon the princes of Israel,✦Et tu assume planctum super principes Israël,
2and thou shalt say: Why lay thy mother a lioness among the lions, in the midst of young lions brought up her catulos: cubs, the young of a beast?and thou shalt say: Why lay thy mother a lionesse among the lions, in the middes of young lions brought vp her whelpes?✦et dices : [Quare mater tua leæna inter leones cubavit ? in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos ?
3And she brought out one of her young lions, he became a lion: and he learned to catch prædam: to pray, to petition; prey, quarry seized in the hunt, and to eat man.And she brought out one of her young lions, he became a lion: and he lerned to catch prayes, and to eate man.✦Et eduxit unum de leunculis suis, et leo factus est : et didicit capere prædam, hominemque comedere.
4And the gentes: the nations, the heathen peoples heard of him, and not without their wounds they took him: and they brought him in chains into the Land of Egypt.And the Gentils heard of him, and not without their woundes they tooke him: and they brought him in cheynes into the Land of Ægypt.✦Et audierunt de eo gentes : et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum, et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Ægypti.
5Who when she saw that she was weakened, and her exspectatio: eager anticipation; hope, that which is looked for was lost, she took one of her young lions, she made him a lion.Who when she saw that she was weakened, and her expectation was lost, she tooke one of her young lions, she made him a lion.✦Quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est, et periit exspectatio ejus, tulit unum de leunculis suis ; leonem constituit eum.
6Who went among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to take prey, and to devour men.Who went among the lions, and became a lion: and he lerned to take praye, and to deuoure men.Qui incedebat inter leones, et factus est leo : et didicit prædam capere, et homines devorare :
7He learned to make widows, and to bring their cities into a desert: and the land was made desolate, and the fullness thereof by the voice of his roaring.He lerned to make widowes, and to bring their cities into a desert: and the land was made desolate, and the fulnes therof by the voice of his roaring.✦didicit viduas facere, et civitates earum in desertum adducere : et desolata est terra et plenitudo ejus a voce rugitus illius.
8And the Gentiles came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net upon him, in their wounds he was taken.And the Gentils came together against him on euerie side out of the prouinces, & they spred their nette vpon him, in their wounds he was taken.✦Et convenerunt adversus eum gentes undique de provinciis, et expanderunt super eum rete suum : in vulneribus earum captus est,
9And they put him into a caveam: a cage, a den for a captured beast, in chains they brought him to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice might no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.And they put him into a caue, in cheynes they brought him to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice might no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel.✦et miserunt eum in caveam : in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis, miseruntque eum in carcerem, ne audiretur vox ejus ultra super montes Israël.
10Thy mother as it were a vine in thy blood is planted upon the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.Thy mother as it were a vine in thy bloud is planted vpon the water: her fruit and her branches haue growen out of manie waters.✦Mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata est : fructus ejus et frondes ejus creverunt ex aquis multis.
11And there were made to her strong rods for the sceptres of them that rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.And there were made to her strong roddes for the scepters of them that rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.✦Et factæ sunt ei virgæ solidæ in sceptra dominantium, et exaltata est statura ejus inter frondes, et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum.
12And she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground: and the burning wind hath dried up her fruit: the rods of her strength are withered, and dried up: fire hath eaten her.And she was plucked vp in wrath, and cast on the ground: and the burning winde hath dried vp her fruite: the roddes of her strength are withered, and dried vp: fire hath eaten her.✦Et evulsa est in ira, in terramque projecta, et ventus urens siccavit fructum ejus : marcuerunt et arefactæ sunt virgæ roboris ejus : ignis comedit eam.
13And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not invia: pathless, untrodden, and dry.And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and drie.✦Et nunc transplantata est in desertum, in terra invia et sitienti.
14And there came forth fire from the rod of her boughs, which hath eaten her fruit: and there was not in her a strong rod, the sceptre of rulers. Lamentation it is, and it shall be into lamentation.And there came forth fire from the rod of her boughes, which hath eaten her fruite: and there was not in her a strong rod, the scepter of rulers. Lamentation it is, and it shal be into lamentation.✦Et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum ejus, qui fructum ejus comedit : et non fuit in ea virga fortis, sceptrum dominantium.] Planctus est, et erit in planctum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.